Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-04-02
A GREAT MOVEMENT.
low Organized Emigration to
Kansas Saved the State from
the Slave Power.
Lbclitionists Characterised by Eli Thayer
o. the Original Secessionis..
Votes from a scrap-Book.

Notes from q Scrap-Book.
In riding or walking from the an.
5iquated old structure al the corner OF
Fourth and Main streets, which passes
y an apology for city hall in this city.
3 New Worcester. the eve Of the
.tranger VII at once be attracted by
IN impos ng structure of solid masonry,
Nth its towers and battlements which
kall to mind the castles OF ancient
lines, writes Worcester (Mass.) cor
Respondent of The Boston Globe. This
knique structure is the Dread institute,
very comfortable boarding school for
|oung ladies, and the eminence upon
khich 1t stands was in olden times
Known as Goats hill; but when the
Sresent educational institution was built
b founder gave to Goats hill the clas-
Nc name of Mont Dread.
The Dread institute was opened for
be reception of pupils in ls49, and was
Wilt BY Hon. Eli Thayer, who is. in my
pin on, the most important historical
haracter now living in Worcester. He
Tas born s;xty-eight years ago. in that
art OF the old town of MendOn now
Inown rs Blackstone. n ID when only
s years of age he packed all his world
b effects into small trunk. shipped it
n board of boat on the Blackstone
apal and tramped. like some more of
s1r prominent citizens, the entire dis
nnce to Worcester. His fortune con-
ksted of pluck. energy and brains, and
"a their aid he carved his own way
through the world. He went to the
Worcester county Manual Labor high
chool. now the Baptist academy.
rhich furnished INDECENT young men
Nth means to pay for their schooling.
provided they had disposition to work.
From the manual labor school Mr..
rhayer entered Brown university. and
hid bis way through college by having
5oeu, by turns. teacher, carpenter,
vood-sawyer and landscape gardener.
After graduating from college he re-
nrned to his adopted city. became
principal of the Worcester academy.
uilt the Dread institute, and was sub
equently elected alderman. represent
|Give to the general court and member
congress.
Although Eli Thayer was a member
: the Massachusetts, legislature in
lass. 1t was In 1854 that his great pub
- career may be said to have begun.
n Mr.. Thayer's own language, that
Was the great dominating year in the
Nations history. Slavery had attained
. highest power, and controlled the
.overnment in all its branches" Sew
,rd. Chase. Sumner. John Davis, Hor-
f ce Greeley, John Quincy Adams. and
|ome of the other great men Of the day
sere crying out, as if with one accord.
Slavery rules everything here. 1t is
stronger now than ever before"
The fugitive slave law has been pass
=. Texas annexed, the Dred-Scott de-
foion rendered, and the repeal of the
Missouri compromise anticipated. The
Nd sbolitionists were denouncing the
apathy of the American churches.
DEawing graphic pictures of manacles,
Sloodhounds, auction blocks, and ad-
ocating a dissolution of the union.
he free state men were disheartened
ND silent For quarter of century
Re halls of congress had been battle
round, and upon the very day of the
repeal of the Missouri comprom sc
eward said: The sun of liberty has
~ upon all the territorial possessions
~ the United States. When this OBJ.
Icnration shall be removed none but
Ne Author of Events can tell. One
hing is certain. that none of us viii
axe any part in removing it. 1t mus
- left to future generations.
About the same time Horace Greeley
wrote that ''the black power rule,
Everything. and was never so strong a,
q Is this day. That bill is darkness
without one glance Of light; deser
without one spot Of venture" Chase
Glddings. and Sumner were giving NJ
Do despair because the territories OF
Kansas and Nebraska were thrown
open for hand-to-hand fight between
froe and slave labor. Garrison, Phillips
md the other great minds which direct
I'd the abolition movement had moth
ing TO offer but dissolution of tn,
american union.
At that time the city of Worcester hac
<be honor Of being represented, in part
y the Massachusetts Legislature by FL
Ihayer. He caught the spirit of tn
hour and applied his brain and heart t
fhe work of saving Kansas to the fire
states and crushing slavery in a fai
hand-in-hand fight with free labor
While the abolitionists were despairln
81 saving the territories and were re
tiring in sullen and angry mood fror
che conflict Mr.. Thayer conceived tn
plan Of organized emigration. He res
soned out that organized free labo
could easily overthrow organized slav
lsbor. He perceived the necessity 70
no organized. self-sacriticing emigrs
ton to Kansas, which would hold this
state against the encroachments of tn
siaye power. He matured his plan